ASUS Extreme N7800GT/2DHTV in SLI: Two Is Better Than One. Page 16

The GeForce 7800 GT graphics card NVIDIA announced on August 11, 2005, proved to be a very appealing and unique product with performance just a little lower than that of the senior GeForce 7800 GTX model, with support of Shader Model 3.0 and HDR, and with an MSRP of $449. But it has recently got a dangerous opponent, ATI RADEON X1800 XL, which appears to be a better product, at least in some aspects. In this review the Extreme N7800GT/2DHTV graphics card, an ASUS version of the GeForce 7800 GT, is going to prove its worth against the ATI challenger.

Performance in Third-Person 3D Shooters

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

The graphics card from ASUS is confidently ahead of the RADEON X1800 XL at the default frequencies. When overclocked from the default 400/1000MHz to 460/1200MHz, it delivers the performance of the RADEON X1800 XT. Surprisingly enough, our combining two Extreme N7800GT cards into a SLI system yielded a smaller speed gain than we got at overclocking the single card.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

The SLI technology brings an impressive performance gain in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory . Two ASUS Extreme N7800GT graphics cards working together yielded over 60fps in 1600x1200 with turned-on full-screen antialiasing and anisotropic filtering! The single card was competing with the RADEON X1800 XL in the “pure speed” mode, but sunk to the last place at the “eye candy” settings. Overclocking lifts the ASUS card up to the level of the GeForce 7800 GTX, however.